More about Albania

  • Meet the team

    Photography and story by Jack Brockley - In September 2008, the Norden District sent two teams of volunteers to Albania to deliver care packages to some of Europe’s neediest families. (...more)

  • Arrival day

    Photography and story by Jack Brockley - The trucks have arrived. Last night, the drivers’ text message reported that Montenegro custom agents had labeled one of the trailers as “suspicious cargo,” but they made it across the border. (...more)

  • The beginning

    Photography and story by Jack Brockley - A pirate ship sails across the floor of the The Door’s Social Center kindergarten in Shkodër, Albania. Its young captain fends off envious classmates who’d like some playing time with the toy boat. (...more)

  • A new life

    Photography and story by Jack Brockley - Sidsel Laurendz was starting over. After living nearly 20 years in Ørland, Trøndelag, Norway, her husband died in 2004 and she moved back to her hometown of Son, Vestby, Norway, eager to find new friends. She found a family instead—2,300 kilometers away in the Balkans. (...more)

  • A daughter in peril

    Photography and story by Jack Brockley - Every time Oddvar Danbolt returns home from a trip to Albania, he’s ready to debate anyone who complains about life. (...more)